While 7 million fewer people watched NBC'S broadcast of Super Bowl LII on NBC on Sunday, the network's streaming effort pulled in more than 2 million viewers, making it the most streamed Super Bowl ever, the network said Monday.

That's 300,000 more online viewers than last year's Super Bowl, ratings company Nielsen said. The growth rate has become typical. The number of viewers watching the Super Bowl streams also grew by about 300,000 for each of the previous two years.

Sunday's game was viewable for free through PCs, internet-connected TVs, tablets and phones using the NFL and Yahoo Sports websites and mobile apps as part of the league's renewed deal with Verizon. The effort was a test for NBC as it prepares to stream more than 1,800 hours of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which begins Friday.

Ahead of the game, NBC had even prepared 19 backup feeds in case of problems. Most streams typically have one or two. That's not to say there weren't any problems -- although those appear to have been platform-specific, rather than with NBC.

"We are excited by the record-breaking consumption as well as the quality of the streams we delivered," Rick Cordella, the head of NBC Sports Digital, said in a statement, a day after Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles upset Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 41-33.

But watching the game did have some difficulties. Both broadcast and online suffered blackouts. While the broadcast outage lasted only the length of the commercial break, some viewers watching the game on Hulu experienced a 45-minute blackout, starting about 7 p.m. ET. Hulu said the outage occurred because of a problem extending live programming past the game's scheduled stop time.

"While the issue affected only a small percentage of Hulu's live TV subscribers, we know this is an unacceptable experience for those viewers, and we sincerely apologize for the interruption," the company said in a statement.

Problems also affected Sony's PlayStation Vue service, which had a "brief" service interruption according to PlayStation support Twitter account. Sony did not respond to a request for comment.

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The app has a simple interface, which consists with a map of the world that shows the current areas of daylight and current areas of darkness. The time in differing locations is shown above the top of the map, and a red pointer moves across the clocks, pointing to the appropriate location on the map for each one.

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View of the earth at day and night.

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EarthTime is able to shows a map of the earth with daylight and night shadows, local weather conditions and optionally a cloud layer with current satellite cloud data. Alarms can be set on the local time of any city in the world. Many options allow flexible customization, and useful the help file is actually quite thorough.

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SpaceX and Elon Musk on Tuesday hope to successfully launch Falcon Heavy, the second most powerful space rocket humanity has ever known.

Two weeks before this most anticipated of commercial space missions, I made a pilgrimage to stand beneath the only rocket to pack more oomph than Musk's baby: the mighty Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon.

One of three remaining Saturn V rockets in the world rests horizontally above the floor of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The series of massive metal tubes spans over 138 feet (42.1 meters) in length, making it nearly impossible to take in the entire thing from any single vantage point inside the museum building where it's on permanent display.

The Saturn V rocket on display at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The power produced by its five F-1 engines is even more incomprehensible. The beast burns 20 tons of fuel per second to create the more than 7 million pounds of thrust needed to carry itself and a payload of up to 310,000 pounds (140,000 kilograms) out of the grasp of Earth's gravity.

But I had come to Huntsville to do more than just gawk at an empty rocket from another century.

They told me it wouldn't make me queasy. I believed them. I shouldn't have.

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I was invited to attend a special session of space camp here with about a dozen journalists, all gathered to get a little taste of the astronaut life in advance of the debut of National Geographic's upcoming series "One Strange Rock," which features a number of former residents of low-Earth orbit. We spent two days participating in simulated space walks and missions to the International Space Station. In between, we designed our own heat shields and those of us without a terrible track record of motion sickness were jostled around by various rides meant to simulate the forces felt by NASA astronauts on a mission.

For decades, I've repressed the fantasy of being an astronaut -- and perhaps one day setting foot on another world. My earliest memory of a major current event is watching the Challenger space shuttle disaster unfold, live, on a television in my first-grade classroom. For me, the implicit dangers of space exploration have always been very clear and impossible to separate from the fantasy.

As a kid, this made the draw of a place like space camp all the more appealing. I wanted to go, not because it could be a stepping stone to a career in space, but because it was the closest I'd ever allow myself to get to such a thing.

But as I grew older, my "Star Trek" fantasies were further repressed when my fascination with space was replaced by other things adolescents often focus on. As an adult I watched the Columbia disaster from a remote location in rural Alaska and felt somewhat vindicated to have so smartly neglected my interest in space during those years. It was still so dangerous, after all.

But a few years back, my Curiosity began to be resurrected. First by a little robot of the same name and then by a man named Elon who seems incapable of repressing any of his own dreams.

Now I was finally here in Huntsville, getting a little taste of what I missed out on as a kid, but still unable to focus completely on the experience. However, this time it had nothing to do with fear and self-repression.

While the ever cheerful and helpful staff waited for me to take my turn at a simulated moonwalk, I was glued to a video feed on my phone of launch pad 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida -- the very same site where Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins began their historic Apollo 11 mission to ride a Saturn V all the way to the surface of the moon. But this time, almost half a century later, it was Falcon Heavy sitting on the same historic launch pad.

I watched on my phone as smoke poured out from beneath Heavy's 27 engines. Not far from me, writers in ill-fitting flight suits made their own steps on the "moon" (basically just an uneven mold of some sort meant to replicate the lunar surface) with the help of huge springs and a harness hanging from the ceiling.

It turns out the design for Falcon Heavy and Elon Musk's vision of humans on Mars may have originated, at least in part, in the mind of the man who was instrumental in creating the Saturn V here in Huntsville.

Before German-turned-American engineer Wernher von Braun was conscripted to build rockets for the Apollo project, he published a short book in German, "Das Marsprojeckt," (later translated to English). It envisioned reusable rockets, in a configuration more like Falcon Heavy than Saturn V, journeying to the red planet. His sketches on display in Huntsville look like they could be back-of-the-napkin notes taken from SpaceX headquarters.

Wernher von Braun's idea of a Mars rocket may have predicted Falcon Heavy.

NASA

Weirdest of all, von Braun imagined a future Martian government in which the head of state went by the title "Elon."

But Falcon Heavy didn't move from that historic launch site as I watched it thunder to life. I was viewing the static fire test performed in advance of Tuesday's planned launch.

After my moon walk and a 45-second ride in the disorienting Multi-Axis Trainer, which simulates an uncontrolled tumble through space, I quickly made my way to the cafeteria, which is more like something out of elementary school than "2001: A Space Odyssey." I commandeered an open table and wrote a post about the successful hold-down firing of Heavy. It was all a bit surreal to be surrounded by the rich past of spaceflight while monitoring the start of its next chapter from afar.

Going to distant places requires big ships.

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Spending a few days amid all that history amped up my anticipation for Tuesday's launch, which now feels decades overdue to me, as it surely does to Musk and many others working in space today.

But space camp also reinforced that I'm still not cut out to be an astronaut. After the guaranteed-not-to-make-you-nauseous Multi-Axis Trainer did make me queasy, I skipped all the other G-force simulators and scuba training, which looked like a blast in retrospect.

Now that I've finally had the space camp experience, I think I'm unlikely to return to give any of those simulators another try anytime soon. But I do look forward to returning to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville one day, perhaps when the museum opens a new wing dedicated to Falcon Heavy and the pioneers of 21st century space exploration.